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CVE-2020-1938

Apache Tomcat Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

Watch priority : UrgentCVSS 9.8 v3.1Exploited

Why this priority

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  • Présent dans le catalogue CISA KEV (exploitation confirmée)

Description

Apache Tomcat treats Apache JServ Protocol (AJP) connections as having higher trust than, for example, a similar HTTP connection. If such connections are available to an attacker, they can be exploited.

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
ApacheApache Tomcat
  • Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.30
  • 8.5.0 to 8.5.50
  • 7.0.0 to 7.0.99
ApacheTomcatAll versions

Revision history

  1. Revision 3

  2. Revision 2

    Update : Affected versions changed

  3. Revision 1

    New record

Qualification

CVSS severity
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Technical severity score between 0 and 10, with its version (3.1, 4.0). See the glossary

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS v3.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
KEV catalog
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Listed
Exploitation
Confirmed
EPSS probability
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Probability, between 0 and 1, that a vulnerability is exploited in the next 30 days, published daily by FIRST. Always dated. See the glossary

Unknown
Confidence
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Quality of the sources behind the record. It is not a risk score. See the glossary

High

Priority rules, version 1

CISA KEV catalog

Added on
3 March 2022
Federal due date
17 March 2022
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Ransomware use
Unknown

Record

Published on
24 February 2020

Sources

References

CVE-2020-1938 Apache Tomcat Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability · Avanguard TACTIC